Buffy: How bored were you last year? Giles: I watched 'Passions' with Spike. Let us never speak of it.

'Beneath You'


Natter 40: The Nice One  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


§ ita § - Nov 03, 2005 4:09:39 am PST #983 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Lloyd Bochner is dead.


bon bon - Nov 03, 2005 4:14:24 am PST #984 of 10006
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

I got one wrong on the English test. I'm kinda pissed. It was a trick question!

Which question? Food for thought?


brenda m - Nov 03, 2005 4:21:39 am PST #985 of 10006
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

20/20 here. What was the trick question?


§ ita § - Nov 03, 2005 4:24:19 am PST #986 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

It wasn't really a trick question. I just thought that long lost (or long-lost) brothers deserved exclamation points even more than they deserve hyphens.

I was probably lucky with the spelling questions -- my spelling is pretty bad right now, and will continue to be for about a week. But they didn't have *my* particular misspellings of the words they offered up, so I was golden.

The math one was fun when I worked out how they wanted me to estimate things. And annoying when I didn't work out in time how they wanted me to.


Typo Boy - Nov 03, 2005 4:31:27 am PST #987 of 10006
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

More on avian flu:

1) A lot of the money is being spent on National Guard for quarantine. And he is giving authority go homeland security -useless and dangerous. 2)So far manadory licensing of Tanaflu does not seem to be happening. My feeling is have the feds give anyone able to produce it a license to do so, assume the liability for the copyright violation, and let the manufacturer sue the feds while the stockpile gets created. 3) On the optimistic side - a lot of deaths from flu are due to secondary infection. We have antibiotics, oxygen tanks and glucose drips to today - not available in 1918. So maybe death toll won't be as high when it happens.


Theodosia - Nov 03, 2005 4:39:57 am PST #988 of 10006
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

::compulsively uses hand sanitizer::


Dana - Nov 03, 2005 5:20:21 am PST #989 of 10006
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Project must be sent to Portland at noon my time. Just got an e-mail from someone I've never heard of before, asking if we can't change the name of the system, because he finds the name we're using "kind of a mouthful."


JZ - Nov 03, 2005 5:22:05 am PST #990 of 10006
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

I got 10/12 on the Dickens quiz, owing to missing a detail on Dickens's childhood and to never having read Oliver Twist. I'm not sure how I've managed to read Dombey and Son three or four times and OT never. Probably sheer laziness.

I am, probably foolishly, clinging to Typo's 3). Also despairing over 1) and 2).


Calli - Nov 03, 2005 5:22:41 am PST #991 of 10006
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Just got an e-mail from someone I've never heard of before, asking if we can't change the name of the system, because he finds the name we're using "kind of a mouthful."

And how will you respond after you stop laughing hysterically?


JZ - Nov 03, 2005 5:23:15 am PST #992 of 10006
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Project must be sent to Portland at noon my time. Just got an e-mail from someone I've never heard of before, asking if we can't change the name of the system, because he finds the name we're using "kind of a mouthful."

::speechless, overcome with sympathetic bludgeoning impulse on Dana's behalf::